Posts Tagged ‘hong kong’
Let me be clear.
On this blog I am chronicling a particular kind of experience. I hope to connect with people who have shared this experience, or who are interested in examining the ways that race comes up in conversations between strangers, distinguishing between what is “acceptable” and what is “objectionable”, and lastly, how a person can deal with [...]
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Tags: chinese, conversations, hong kong, japanese, strangers, travel
August 22, Peking Road.
I had a bit of a deja vu moment while walking around Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon last weekend. There are a lot of South Asian guys who hang out around there and ask if you want to buy watches and handbags. One said to me, “Where is Kowloon Hotel?” I told him I didn’t [...]
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Tags: conversations, hong kong, japanese, korean, south asian, strangers
Signage win.
in the subway cars there are signs that read, “please give your seat to anyone in need”. according to the accompanying symbols, people in need include:
those who are pregnant
and those being mounted by midgets.
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Tags: hong kong, travel
Follow-up.
I realize that last post sounded pretty aggro, and I did feel a little worked up while typing it out, but really it’s more that now that I’m out of New York I feel relieved in certain ways, and able to properly vent about some of these things because they are (maybe) behind me.
I’m [...]
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Left that country.
I live in Hong Kong now. I left my apartment and life in New York and took two suitcases and a duffle bag with me. (I got a grant to work here for a year.)
About two weeks before I left, when I was home taking stock of all the things in my apartment I don’t [...]
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Tags: china, clinton hill, conversations, hong kong, irksome, strangers, wtf
Jackie Chan opens can of worms.
There’s a lively discussion going on at the “Room for Debate” blog at the New York Times. I’d heard about Jackie Chan’s remarks, but the issues brought up in the comments to this blog post provided so many different perspectives that I thought I should post them here. From questioning whether Jackie Chan was mistranslated [...]
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Tags: china, controversy, film, hong kong, media, politics, taiwanese
